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applegrove

(118,492 posts)
Thu Feb 23, 2017, 07:46 PM Feb 2017

Rowdy Town Halls Are More Organic Than Organized

https://politicalwire.com/2017/02/23/rowdy-town-halls-organic-organized/

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“The White House and prominent Republicans have largely dismissed the noisy eruption of civic activism at town-hall meetings across the U.S. as the work of professional organizers and paid activists, partly because MoveOn and other liberal groups have offered help,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Interviews suggest otherwise. Many participants are first-timers who echo in passion, though not in politics, the people who emerged early in the tea-party movement in 2009, when unhappy voters banded together against what they saw as government overreach by the Obama administration.”


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Rowdy Town Halls Are More Organic Than Organized (Original Post) applegrove Feb 2017 OP
Oun Nation is on edge. Wellstone ruled Feb 2017 #1
 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
1. Oun Nation is on edge.
Thu Feb 23, 2017, 08:58 PM
Feb 2017

And all takes is one poorly worded response for who ever is running his or her meeting,and off to the races.

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